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    • Oct 22, 1994
    Rock producer Jimmy Miller dies in Boulder, Colorado. He's best known for his work with The Rolling Stones, including "Honky Tonk Women," tabbed one of country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Nov 23, 1994
    Pop songwriter/producer Tommy Boyce dies at his Nashville home from a self-inflicted gunshot. The producer of The Monkees' "Last Train To Clarksville," he wrote Jay & The Americans' "Come A Little Bit Closer," a country hit for Johnny Duncan
    Aug 20, 1997
    Record producer Roy Dea dies at Nashville's Southern Hills Medical Center, two days after suffering a heart attack. His credits included hits by Tom T. Hall, Gary Stewart, Johnny Rodriguez and Dickey Lee
    Jan 7, 1998
    Record producer Owen Bradley dies at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital. Recognized as an architect of the Nashville Sound, he produced classics by Brenda Lee, Conway Twitty, Jack Greene, Ernest Tubb, Loretta Lynn and Kitty Wells, among others. Bradley joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974
    Aug 24, 2000
    Record producer, publisher and musician Audie Ashworth dies of heart failure at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. His credits include work with rocker J.J. Cale and country singer Connie Cato
    Jun 30, 2001
    Chet Atkins dies at home after a long bout with cancer. An influential guitarist and producer who helped create "The Nashville Sound," he entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973 and earned a Lifetime Achievement award from the Grammys
    Jul 22, 2001
    Bob Ferguson dies at University Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. He wrote "Wings Of A Dove" and "The Carroll County Accident," and produced hits for Connie Smith, Dolly Parton, Jim Ed Brown and Dottie West
    Mar 21, 2002
    Songwriter/record executive/producer/musician Tommy Hill dies in Nashville. The brother of Goldie Hill, his credits included Webb Pierce's "Slowly," Red Sovine's "Teddy Bear" and Johnny Bond's "10 Little Bottles," among others
    Aug 2, 2002
    Producer/songwriter Joe Allison dies in Nashville, following a lengthy illness. A former head of Liberty's country division, he wrote "He'll Have To Go" and "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young," entering the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1978
    Oct 22, 2002
    Pop producer/engineer Tom Dowd dies of a respiratory illness in Miami, Florida. Associated with such acts as Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Aretha Franklin, he co-produced Dusty Springfield's "Son-Of-A-Preacher Man," hailed among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book



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